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2003 in the United States
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Events from the year 2003 in the United States.

Contents

Political incumbents

Events

January

February

February 1: Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed on re-entry

March

April

May

June

July

  • July 14 – CIA leak scandal: Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative.
  • July 22 – Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein, are killed by the U.S. military in Iraq, after being tipped off by an informant.
  • July 26 – The electorate of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma approves a new constitution redesignating the tribe "Cherokee Nation" without "of Oklahoma" and specifically disenfranchising the Cherokee Freedmen.

August

September

October

November

December

  • December 1 – Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit resigns unexpectedly. He is replaced by Lewis Platt as non-executive chairman and Harry Stonecipher as president and CEO.
  • December 13 – Iraq War: End of Operation Red Dawn resulting in the capture of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit.[1]
  • December 22 – An earthquake in California kills two.
  • December 24 – At the request of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, the French Government orders Air France to cancel several flights between France and the U.S. in response to terrorist concerns.
  • December 24 – A BSE (mad cow disease) outbreak in Washington State is announced. Several countries including Brazil, Australia and Taiwan ban the import of beef from the United States.

Unknown dates

Deaths

Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (born 1959)
David M. Brown, astronaut (born 1956)
Kalpana Chawla, astronaut (born 1961)
Laurel Clark, astronaut (born 1961)
Rick Husband, astronaut (born 1957)
William McCool, astronaut (born 1961)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 653–656. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.  
  2. ^ CNN.com – U.S.: $1 billion taken by Saddam – May. 6, 2003

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